We here at AMRA strive to educate our followers, members and friends on what their rights are. If you do not know what RS2477 is, you need to. RS2477, a subpart of the 1866 Mining Grant states roads must remain open. Just a few years ago, Utah challenged the Federal government’s assertion that […]
Update on some current issues: We are packing today for our trip to Idaho and the South Fork Clearwater. We have been informed the USFS is not backing down on their ridiculous assertion that suction dredgers must pull a Plan of Operations (PoO). This is not, by law required and they are also claiming […]
A new article by the Desert Sun on the fight here in California. Please folks, post a comment on the Desert Sun and be heard: https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/politics/2018/06/29/suction-dredge-mining-advocates-foes-regroup-after-clarifying-legislation-grinds-halt/742999002/ Or simply click Suction dredge mining advocates foes regroup after clarifying legislation grind to a halt
We have finally recovered after our dredge trip to the 40 Mile River in Alaska at the Gold Fever Prospecting camp near Chicken. We are writing a story which documents our 2 weeks up there and will share it soon. We are very actively setting up our face to face meetings with CA Department […]
We are just 8 days from arriving in Fairbanks AK to dredge for two weeks. We will be posting videos every day (weather permitting) of our clean outs and Don Siegel is even growing his beard out so he can pretend to be Jack Hoffman…(ugh). Here is a post the Fontes family posted […]
A note from AMRA: We are 14 days from leaving for our dredging trip to Alaska at Gold Fever Prospecting! For those which don’t know about this trip, there are 12 of us going to Chicken AK for two weeks to dredge with a 10″ dredge, an 8″ dredge and three 6″ dredges […]
The long awaited post about Suction Dredging in California Simply put…….Dredging is coming back to California Spring of next year. Firstly, we know you are as skeptical as we are, after all, we’ve been told things over the past 9 years (like rulings from courts and such) which give us hope, but it always ended […]
Currently proposed Arizona road closures by BLM and what to do about them: We are currently in Arizona and spoke at the GPAA Gold Fever West Valley Chapter last night about a new proposal by the BLM to close 505 miles of of public land roads under their Travel Management Plan. Most of these […]
Do you want your own mining claim? In keeping with our promise a few months ago, we have begun shooting one of the educational video’s you had requested for our Youtube page. HOW TO FILE A MINING CLAIM This very detailed several part video will show you how to file your own mining claim. It […]